Posted on 10/22/2012 7:18:31 AM PDT by Andy from Chapel Hill
I have Time of Use electric power billing and pay only $0.055 per KWH, so the Volt will cost me less than $200 per year to charge. I also rarely drive more than 20 miles per day.
I will lease/but one if they are giving them away, and the thought of owning a limited run car is attractive.
But, If (when) Romney wins, will he shut the line forever and make the current inventory collectable?
“For all intensive purposes...”
Pretty sure that was supposed to be;
“For all in tents and porpoises.”
There’s another factor: The Charging Station. The US paid $106,000 to have two installed in Switzerland. Does anybody know what they cost here?
Then you're four years late in moving. 0 did that when he pushed the "green energy" BS with taxpayer dollars in the first place. 0 and his fellow "progressives" love Cuba and want the US to be an economic powerhouse just like it.
Ah lernt dis phrase in grammr schul an I beleeve it is "for all intents and purposes."
If Obama stays in power, you will look back on $.1310 per KWH as “The Good Old Days”.
It will charge from dead flat to full charge in about 12 hours on a standard 110VAC line.
A $1000 220 VAC charger will shorten that time to 4-6 hours.
I almost always have my car in the garage by 9 PM and drive it beginning at 7:30 AM. I we go out later, we would take another car.
I also have a 1962 Studebaker Hawk GT, so I kinda like these odd cars.
They are priced at about $2,000 each. However, that does not include installation or possible upgrade of your home electrical system to handle the extra load. Good news though, they will work with any of the other electric cars coming on to the market.
...or the evolution of language. Lol!
Remember the great vowel shift!
If Romney wins, GM will survive as an independent automobile company. It will be precisely because of private enterprise and our capitalist system, and despite the harmful input of the government.
I expect him to sell GM off to the highest bidder, which will likely be Chinese or Korean. Then he will roll back CAFE standards. Between the two, GM’s new overlords will drop the Volt like a hot rock.
Andy,
If you only drive 18 miles roundtrip like me they may make sense. There were 2 & 3 year leases available on Volts available for $200/$129 per month.
However, I would never purchase one. It is not a good investment. If you want a classic car that is going to appreciate in value buy a used Ferrari or something like that. Also, I would not park one of these cars in my garage. You do not want to take the chance that it could burn your house down.
If there is a market for the Volt, it will live. If not, it will die. Romney has bigger things to worry about, like getting the government out of the way of free enterprise.
I wouldn’t buy one, but they’re giving them away on 2 year leases just to get them on the road.
The lease deals are up to $299/month for 36 months, so they have backed off from the crazy low pricing a bit.
Great point about the fire risk! I would feel OK running a 10 GA 110 VAC extension cord to a Volt sitting in the drive way.
Oh, well, thanks for all of the insight.
ABO = Romney/Ryan 2012
One of the appeals of communism, especially to young and insecure people, is the inference of elitism.
You see, the people won’t WANT what’s best in the “big picture”, so choices on items like the Volt will have to be made for them by their “betters”.
Of course having said they are a bad investment, lets pretend and flash forward to the Barrett Jackson auction in 2052. I still would find it hard to believe that the 2012 Volt would be going for $100k. I think more likely the 2012 Ford Mustang Shelby Cobra would be the better long term investment.
you are quite right, and no one should be surprised. After all, one 0's campaign promises was that in his administration electricity costs would necessarily skyrocket.
i think that McCain could have won if he'd used 0's own words in the campaign (and not go AWOL when the banks imploded.). But he was mostly concerned about being nice to the Negro.
Not that we would have been much better off under McCain. It's arguable we'd be in een worse shape.
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